Eugene Robinson: Pressure is on Obama to follow Biden's lead

6:17 PM,
Oct. 12, 2012

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Eugene Robinson
Washington Post

If the question is who did more to help his ticket, Joe Biden won the vice presidential debate by a mile.

Republican Paul Ryan performed pretty well. He made no major mistakes, and a CNN instant poll of viewers actually had him winning narrowly. But my assessment of the debate agreed with that of a CBS instant poll of uncommitted voters, who saw Biden as the landslide winner.

Don't just consider the two surveys and call it a draw. If you ask whose prospects of winning the election were boosted Thursday night, President Obama's or Mitt Romney's, the answer is really not debatable. This was a moment ...